Author Archives: Maxym Dmytrychenko (Intel)

Developing for Intel® Smart Connect Technology (ISCT)

Intel® Smart Connect Technology (ISCT) brings Always On Always Connected (AOAC) capabilities to Intel® Architecture based Ultrabooks and laptop platforms. This technology provides a mechanism for network based applications such as email and social networking applications to maintain up to date information, even when the platform is in standby. This helps to keep a user’s [...] Read more >

History of … one CPU instructions: Part 1. LDDQU/movdqu explained

Once upon the time and back to 2000, Intel brought to market NetBurst microarchitecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_%28microarchitecture%29 )  with Pentium 4 CPUs . At 2004, with its Prescott revision/core and as a part of SSE3 instruction set, we’ve got LDDQU instruction, Where the main focus area used to be – Video Encoding: The most compute-intensive part of [...] Read more >